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Effect of Cigarette Smoke Exposure on MPTP-Induced Neurotoxicity in Mice (흡연이 MPTP에 의해 유발되는 신경독성에 미치는 영향)

  • Heung-Bin Lim;Hyung-Ok Sohn;Young-Gu Lee;Dong-Wook Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Tobacco Science
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.160-169
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    • 1996
  • Effect of cigarette smoke exposure on 1-methyl-4-phpnyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydro-pyidine (Mm)-induced neurotoxicity was investigated in C57BL6 mice. Cigarette smoke exposure of mice to the mainstream smoke generated from 15 cigarettes for 10 mins per day, 5 days per week, for fi weeks, effectively attenuated the decline both in the level of striatal dopamine and the number of brrosine hydros:ylase-positive ceils in the brain caused by MPTP treahent. Exposure to cigarette smoke significantly decreased monoamine oxidate B activity in the cerebral cortex and cerebellum. The activity of brain antioxidant enzymes such as catalase, glutathione peroxidase, and Cu, Zn-superoxide dismutase, was not changed by cigarette smoke exposure or MPTP treatment. Sulfhydryl compounds content in all brain regions except for the striatum was uniquely increased by MPTP treatment, however, such an effect of MPTP was not observed in mice exposed to cigarette smoke. These results suggest that cigarette smoke exposure inhibits MPTP-induced neurotoxicity without influencing free radical metabolism in the brain of mice. This protective effect of cigarette smoke seems to be closely related with the decreased activity of brain monoamine oxidase H. Key words : cigarette smoke exposure, dopamine, monoamine oxidase B, antioxidant enzywles, MPTP.

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SMOKE SPREAD IN A CORRIDOR

  • Kim, Myung-Bae;Han, Yong-Shik;Park, Jun-Seok
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 1997.11a
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    • pp.464-471
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    • 1997
  • Convective smoke spread in a corridor is experimentally investigated using thermocouples and visualization technique with a laser beam sheet. The speed of smoke front under a ceiling is measured by a series of thermocouples. Visualization of the ceiling jet formation and of smoke filling process is carried out to observe the lowering of a smoke layer. From the results, a large-scale convective motion plays dominant roles for smoke spread in the vicinity of the end of the corridor from visualized photos along with temperature records. The large-scale convective motion of the smoke is generated from the impingement of the ceiling jet front on the end of the corridor, and thus turning the flows toward the floor. Such a circulating motion of fluid transports some smoke to some region where its momentum is effective. It is therefore shown that the conventional concept of lowering smoke in the two-layer zone model has some restrictions for the corridor because the lowering of smoke layer has been thought to be mass transport due to relatively small scale motions such as the decrease of buoyancy, mass diffusion and momentum exchanges.

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The Performance Evaluation of Natural Smoke Ventilators Due to Stack Effect and Wind Velocities in High-rise Buildings (고층건물에서 연돌효과 및 외기풍속에 따른 배연창의 배연성능 평가)

  • Lim, Chae-Hyun;Kim, Bum-Gyu;Park, Yong-Hwan
    • Fire Science and Engineering
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.82-90
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    • 2009
  • Natural smoke ventilator is one of domestic prescriptive methods to be used to exhaust smoke in case of fire in a high-rise buildings. The goal of this study is to evaluate the stack effect and the smoke exhaust performance in high-rise buildings with the opening of natural smoke ventilators using computer modeling technology, thus to estimate its effectiveness as a tool of smoke exhaust. For this purpose, the pressure differential in a domestic high-rise building with natural smoke ventilators was experimentally measured to analyze the stack effect with the closure or the opening of natural smoke ventilators and to calculate compensated air leakage of the building. Computer modeling based on experimentally measured data was carried out to estimate effectiveness of natural smoke ventilators in high-rise buildings using CONTAMW network program.

Real-time Smoke Detection Research with False Positive Reduction using Spatial and Temporal Features based on Faster R-CNN

  • Lee, Sang-Hoon;Lee, Yeung-Hak
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.1148-1155
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    • 2020
  • Fire must be extinguished as quickly as possible because they cause a lot of economic loss and take away precious human lives. Especially, the detection of smoke, which tends to be found first in fire, is of great importance. Smoke detection based on image has many difficulties in algorithm research due to the irregular shape of smoke. In this study, we introduce a new real-time smoke detection algorithm that reduces the detection of false positives generated by irregular smoke shape based on faster r-cnn of factory-installed surveillance cameras. First, we compute the global frame similarity and mean squared error (MSE) to detect the movement of smoke from the input surveillance camera. Second, we use deep learning algorithm (Faster r-cnn) to extract deferred candidate regions. Third, the extracted candidate areas for acting are finally determined using space and temporal features as smoke area. In this study, we proposed a new algorithm using the space and temporal features of global and local frames, which are well-proposed object information, to reduce false positives based on deep learning techniques. The experimental results confirmed that the proposed algorithm has excellent performance by reducing false positives of about 99.0% while maintaining smoke detection performance.

A Study on the Research Trends of Smoke Movement in Fire (화재 시 연기거동 관련 연구 동향에 관한 조사)

  • Kim, Hyung-Jin;Shin, Yi-Chul;Hwang, Eun-Kyung;Hwang, Keum-Suk;Kwon, Young-Jin
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.317-320
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    • 2008
  • Smoke is recognized as the major killer in fire situation. smoke often migrate to building locations remote the fire space, threatening life and elevator shafts frequently become smoke-logged, there by blocking evacuation and inhibiting rescue and fire fighting. It is the aim of this study to investigate and analyze the research trends of smoke movement in Fire.

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Experiments on Smoke Filling in a Large Space (대공간 축연실험)

  • Han, Yong-Sik;Kim, Myeong-Bae;Jang, Yong-Jae;Yun, Myeong-O;Kim, Jin-Gon
    • 한국연소학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.37-46
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    • 1998
  • In this experiments, smoke filling behaviors in a large space were investigated. Also, it found that the smoke filling time can be predicted with a simplified zone model. Thermocouples were used to measure the temperature of the hot gases layer and also later to determine the smoke layer depth. Height markers were also hung from the roof so that observers could visibly assess the smoke layer depth.

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The physicochemical Characterization of ETS (Environmental Tobacco Smoke) (Environmental Tobacco Smoke의 이화학적 특성)

  • 이문수
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Tobacco Science
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.79-97
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    • 1995
  • On the basis of the literature, which is at present still scientific information improvable, the results of research done so far into the occurrence and analytical methodology of major markers of environmental tobacco smoke(ETS) have been summarized. Key areas addressed are: differences in physicochemical composition between mainstream smoke, sidestream smoke and ETS: techniques for field measurement of ETS: relationship between indoor air quality with ETS and its distribution view of US EPA and its problems: biological effects and concerning estimation of ETS exposure.

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Flame control method for hot smoke test (Hot smoke test 를 위한 화염 제어 방법)

  • 김진국
    • Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Fire Science and Engineering Conference
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    • 1996.11a
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    • pp.30-33
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    • 1996
  • This paper presents the technical basis for hot smoke test intended to investigate the effectiveness of smoke ventilation system in both high-rise building and those containing atria and/or galleria. Smoke is particularly serious hazard in these building in which considerable time is required for complete evacuation. It is widely recognised that the effectiveness of large smoke ventilation system can be difficult to confirm by a critical analysis of the system design calculation. Thus a hot smoke test is recently introduced through the experiences of many attempts. Diffusion flames used for hot smoke test have a higher flame length, so that those can not be applied to small compartment. Therefore the objective of this paper is introducing the method of flame control which can be applied to any size of compartment

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A Study on the Need for Developing a Photoelectric Smoke Detector Detecting Smokes Emitted from Diverse Fire Sources (다양한 화원으로부터 발생된 연기를 감지하는 광전식연기감지기의 필요성에 대한연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Hwa
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2016
  • In this paper which was performed to bring public attention to the need for developing an photoelectric smoke detector that detects smokes emitted from diverse fire sources, it was confirmed that the photoelectric smoke detector may not respond to certain smoke types depending on the size and color of smoke particles. The test was performed on a photoelectric smoke detector which is being used generally for specific fire targets specified in UL268, including paper fire, wood fire and flammable liquid fire, while the actual response performance of the fire detector, as well as respective smoke particles collected from different fire source which were photographed with a SEM(Scanning electron microscope) were analyzed in the test for this study.

A Study on Dependence of Smoke Emission in Diesel Engines Upon Diffusion Combustion (디젤기관의 스모크배출의 확산연소 의존성에 관한 연구)

  • 한성빈;문성수;이성열
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.397-404
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    • 1994
  • Smoke is emitted in diesel engines because fuel injected into the high-temperatured and high-pressured combustion chamber burns with its mixture with insufficient oxygeny. In consideration of air pollution, above all, it is necessary to illuminate the cause of smoke emission in diesel engines. The smoke emission, which is characteristic of diffusion combustion in diesel engines, results from pyrolysis of fuel not mixed with air. Therefore the smoke emission is dependent on diffusion combustion quantity, which is in turn controlled by engine parameter. The study aims at making clear and interpreting the interdependence of smoke emission in diesel engines with heat released within combustion chamber, camparing diffusion combustion quantity according to each engine parameter (air fuel ratio, injection timing, and engine speed), and showing the relation between smoke emission and fraction of diffusion combustion through experiment.