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Improved adsorption performance of heavy metals by surface modification of polypropylene/polyethylene media through oxygen plasma and acrylic acid

  • Hong, Jeongmin;Lee, Seungwoo;Ko, Dongah;Gwon, Eunmi;Hwang, Yuhoon
    • Membrane and Water Treatment
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.231-235
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    • 2020
  • Industrialization and modern developments have led to an influx of toxic heavy metals into the aquatic environment, and the accumulation of heavy metals has serious adverse effects on humans. Among the various heavy metal treatment methods, adsorption is very useful and frequently used. Plastic materials, such as polypropylene and polyethylene, have been widely used as filter media due to their mechanical and chemical stability. However, the surface of plastic material is inert and therefore the adsorption capability of heavy metals is very limited. In this study, granular media and fiber media composed of polypropylene and polyethylene are used, and the surface modification was conducted in order to increase adsorption capability toward heavy metals. Oxygen plasma generated hydroxyl groups on the surface of the media to activate the surface, and then acrylic acid was synthesized on the surface. The grafted carboxyl group was confirmed by FT-IR and SEM. Heavy metal adsorption capability of pristine and surface modified adsorbents was also evaluated. Overall, heavy metal adsorption capability was increased by surface modification due to electrostatic interaction between the carboxyl groups and heavy metal ions. Fibrous PP/PE showed lower improvement compared to granular PP media because pore blockage occurred by the surface modification step, thereby inhibiting mass transfer.

Effect of Root Media Formulation and Fertilizer Application on Potato Plug Seedling Growth and Field Performance

  • Kang, Bong-Kyoon;Kang, Young-Kil;Kang, Si-Yong;Park, Yang-Mun
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.125-129
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    • 2001
  • Eight vermiculite-based root media prepared with addition of complete fertilizer (2 g/L; N-$P_2$$O_5$-$K_2$O, 10-10-14) for potatoes (Solanum tuberosum L.) and a commercial root medium were evaluated in 2000 to develop the root media suitable for potato plug seedling production. The eight media consisted of various ratios of vermiculite, perlite, peatmoss, and compost. In addition, four rates (0, 1, 2, or 4 g/L) of the complex fertilizer for potato were added to a root medium (70% vermiculite, 10% perlite, 10% peat moss, and 10% compost by volume) to determine the optimum addition rate of the complex fertilizer for plug seedlings. Compost addition to the media increased plant height, the number of leaves per plant, and top and root fresh weight of 15-day old plug seedlings. The seedlings raised in root media containing compost produced significantly higher total tuber yield. Addition of the complex fertilizer to root media enhanced seedling growth and increased the number of tubers per plant and tuber yields. The results suggest that root media containing 50% vermiculite, 0 to 20% peat moss, 10% perlite, 20 to 40% compost, and 2 g/L complex fertilizer for potato appear suitable for potato plug seedling production.

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Comparison of Cultivation, Mushroom Yield, and Fruiting Body Characteristics of Lentinula edodes Strains according to the Inoculation Method

  • Jang, Yeongseon;Jeong, Yeun Sug;Ryoo, Rhim;Ka, Kang-Hyeon
    • The Korean Journal of Mycology
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.525-530
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    • 2021
  • The cultivation in sawdust media, mushroom productivity, and fruiting body characteristics of Lentinula edodes strains NIFoS 2778 and NIFoS 3363 were compared according to the inoculation conditions. The cultivation period was 5% shorter when liquid spawn was used. Fruiting bodies were induced after 113 days of incubation on media inoculated with liquid spawn, and the cultivation period was 119 days on media inoculated with solid spawn. Mushroom productivity of NIFoS 2778 was the highest (661.4 g) when 36 mL of liquid spawn was used. For NIFoS 3363, mushroom production was higher under liquid inoculation conditions when the same amount of liquid and solid spawns were used. The mushroom characteristics of the two strains were not significantly different, except for gill width and stipe diameter.

Social Media Mining Toolkit (SMMT)

  • Tekumalla, Ramya;Banda, Juan M.
    • Genomics & Informatics
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.16.1-16.5
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    • 2020
  • There has been a dramatic increase in the popularity of utilizing social media data for research purposes within the biomedical community. In PubMed alone, there have been nearly 2,500 publication entries since 2014 that deal with analyzing social media data from Twitter and Reddit. However, the vast majority of those works do not share their code or data for replicating their studies. With minimal exceptions, the few that do, place the burden on the researcher to figure out how to fetch the data, how to best format their data, and how to create automatic and manual annotations on the acquired data. In order to address this pressing issue, we introduce the Social Media Mining Toolkit (SMMT), a suite of tools aimed to encapsulate the cumbersome details of acquiring, preprocessing, annotating and standardizing social media data. The purpose of our toolkit is for researchers to focus on answering research questions, and not the technical aspects of using social media data. By using a standard toolkit, researchers will be able to acquire, use, and release data in a consistent way that is transparent for everybody using the toolkit, hence, simplifying research reproducibility and accessibility in the social media domain.

An Analysis of the Present Publishing Media: Focusing on Data Development and Distribution (출판미디어의 데이터 개발과 보급 현황 분석)

  • Kim, Jeong-Suk
    • Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.49-70
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    • 2004
  • This study is to analyze the present publishing media in order to grasp the trend of data development and distribution. For this, I analyze the present tendency, concentrating indices of diagram, dividing into traditional book and e-book. It also discusses the viewpoint extracted from the problems related to the data development and distribution of publishing media. Traditional books and e-books have been expending to add newly updated convergence media in digital media era in which internet represents. I discuss these changes to convergence media for the realization of 'ubiquitous' mean the evolution to transmit propagational elements from proper character of traditional book. By the same token, I examine prospect of increasing digital publishing media and other problems before distribution.

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Digital Camera Use Pattern Survey and Analysis (디지털 카메라 사용패턴 조사 및 분석)

  • Kim, Dong-Chul;Park, Chun-Seok;Lee, Se-In;Seo, Jong-Hoon;Han, Tack-Don
    • Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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    • 2007.10c
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    • pp.258-262
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    • 2007
  • 최근 디지털 사진 시장은 블로그와 UCC 라는 트랜드와 함께 더욱 확대되고 있다. 이러한 시장 환경에서 디지털 카메라는 디지털 사진의 장점과 기기 가격의 하락으로 널리 보급되고 있다. 디지털 카메라의 보급에 따라 촬영된 방대한 사진자료의 검색과 관리의 중요성이 부각되고 있으며 이를 활용하기 위해 다방면에서 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 하지만 급속도로 확장된 디지털 카메라 시장에서 사용자에 대한 사용 패턴 조사와 분석은 미비한 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 디지털 카메라 시장 업계의 동향과 하드웨어적인 측면을 조사하고, 온라인 설문을 통하여 사용자의 사용 패턴을 조사하여 분석하였다. 총 34 명을 대상으로 디지털 카메라의 사용 패턴을 조사하였다. 저장 매체를 설문하는 조사에서는 응답자의 82%에 달하는 대부분의 사용자가 HDD를 주된 저장매체로 사용하고 있었고 CD나 DVD는 12%, 인화하여 보관하는 경우는 6%에 그쳤다. 보관되고 있는 사진의 용량을 조사하는 설문에서는 약 35%에 해당하는 사용자들의 10GB에 달하는 사진을 보유하고 있었고, 주로 찍는 화소로는 약 41%의 사용자가 300만 화소로 촬영하고 있었다. 이러한 사용자 패턴 분석과 설문 자료 결과를 통하여 사진 관련 커뮤니티나 포털 사이트를 기획하거나 새로운 인터페이스의 디지털 카메라를 설계하는데 기여할 수 있다.

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A Study on Determinants of Growth of Social Commerce : Roles of Social Media and Customer (소셜커머스의 성장요인 분석 : 소셜미디어와 소비자의 역할)

  • Choi, Sungho;Park, Kyung Min
    • Journal of the Korean Operations Research and Management Science Society
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    • v.38 no.3
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    • pp.71-86
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    • 2013
  • This research explores the question how interactions between customer and firm affect firm growth. To test suggested hypotheses, this study collects data on social commerce industry in Korea during the period from the beginning of social commerce industry in Korea, May 2010, to March 2012, and investigates the effect of social media on the growth of social commerce firms. We suggest two hypotheses in this study. First, as web traffic inflow through social media into a focal social commerce increases, the growth rate of the focal social commerce increases. Second, the more diverse social media channel through which web traffic inflows into a focal social commerce, the weaker the positive effect of web traffic inflow on the growth rate of the focal social commerce. Analysis of data shows that inflow through social media is positively related to the growth of social commerce. In addition, our analysis shows that inflow channel diversity weakens the positive relationship between web traffic inflow through social media and growth rate of social commerce firms. These results suggest that firms need to concentrate on few social media in order to attract customers. The study contributes to understanding how interaction between firms and customers influences the growth of the firm.

The Effects of Media Literacy Education and its Influence on Digital Citizenship: Focusing on CMF Education Programs in Korea

  • Park, Yun Mi;Chae, Ji Hye;Kim, Seul Ki;Kwon, Hye Seon
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.113-135
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    • 2021
  • Purpose This study aims to measure the effects of media literacy education through the social science method and find out the impact of media literacy education on digital citizenship in Korea and its implications for the development of democracy. Design/methodology/approach This study used an independent t-test to analyze relativeness between media literacy education and media literacy factors. We also adopted an independent t-test to investigate media literacy influence on digital citizenship. Furthermore, we found out age differences using 'the one-way analysis of variance (the one-way ANOVA)'. Findings We have found four media literacy factors, MC, CT, C&P, R&R, have been significantly affected by media literacy education. We have also pulled out three digital citizenship factors, IPA, TS, and CP, involved in media literacy education. Moreover, we have analyzed our survey by different age groups. The lower the age, the higher the TS. CP was highest among those from 30 to 59, followed by those under the 30s.

Study on the Role of Media in the Building of Interpersonal Trust (개인간 신뢰형성 과정에서 미디어의 역할에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Jinwouk;Cho, Namjae
    • Korean Management Science Review
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.29-47
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    • 2016
  • Trust is formed from the day-to-day and persistent interaction relationship. The trust demands more and more at the age of uncertainty. Human beings are using media interaction. The area of communication with media is extended to virtual space. The purpose of this study is to qualitatively explain trust building process in virtual team by media using. In the pursuit of this purpose, we executed in-depth interview with the person who have experience communicating by media with a man of a complete stranger. They experienced the trust building process. Interview data were analyzed by a Structured Coding Techniques. The derived seven categories were reconstructed in consideration of the cause-and-effect relationship and the flow of events. We have discovered a new trust model that was the result from communication by a media using. The model presented is very useful to Individuals who need a new trust building relationship with stranger or virtual team member.

BI-DIRECTIONAL TRANSPORT AND NETWORKED DISPLAY INTERFACE OF UNCOMPRESSED HD VIDEO

  • Park, Jong-Churl;Jo, Jin-Yong;Goo, Bon-Cheol;Kim, Jong-Won
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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    • 2009.01a
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    • pp.184-188
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    • 2009
  • To interactively share High Definition (HD)-quality visualization over emerging ultra-high-speed network infrastructure, several lossless and low-delay real-time media (i.e., uncompressed HD video and audio) transport systems are being designed and prototyped. However, most of them still rely on expensive hardware components. As an effort to reduce the building cost of system, in this paper, we propose the integration of both transmitter and receiver machines into a single bi-directional transport system. After detailed bottleneck analysis and subsequent refinements of embedded software components, the proposed integration can provide Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP)-based bi-directional transport of uncompressed HD video and audio from a single machine. We also explain how to interface the Gbps-bandwidth display output of uncompressed HD media system to the networked tiled display of 10240 $\times$ 3200 super-high-resolution. Finally, to verify the feasibility of proposed integration, several prototype systems are built and evaluated by operating them in several different experiment scenarios.

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