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A Study on Faculty's Adoption of Institutional Repositories(IRs) Based on the Diffusion of Innovations Theory (교수들의 기관 레포지터리 수용에 관한 연구: 혁신확산이론을 바탕으로)

  • Kim, Ji-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.141-160
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    • 2011
  • This study examined perceptions of 109 professors at doctorate-granting universities in the U.S. who have self-archived in Institutional Repositories(IRs), predicated on the Diffusion of Innovations Theory. The majority of the faculty learned about IRs through the contact from IR staff or their presentations. Relating to five characteristics of an innovation, digital preservation and usage statistics of an IR were considered to be its relative advantage. The principle of Open Access(OA) was found to have compatibility with the values that professors ultimately pursued. The trialability of an IR was determined by the fact that IRs were adopted by faculty through the participation of pilot projects. Professors who gained positive and visible results from IR adoption seemed more strongly support the repository. In addition, it is necessary for IRs to provide stable and effective services that support the continued adoption of IRs.

Combustion Characteristics of Methane-Oxygen Diffusion Flame Formed by Swirl-coaxial Injector (스월 동축형 인젝터에 의해 형성되는 메탄-산소 확산화염의 연소특성)

  • Bae, Seong Hun;Hong, Joon Yeol;Kim, Heuy Dong;Kim, Jeong Soo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2017
  • In order to analyze combustion characteristics of methane-oxygen diffusion flame in a model combustor, combustion experiments were carried out under various spray conditions of propellant scrutinizing combustion stability limit and flame shapes. As the propellant approached the theoretical equivalence ratio condition, a stable detached flame was observed even under high oxygen Reynolds number. And the length of the visible flame increased and the lift-off distance of the flame exhibited a tendency toward decrease. Due to the swirl effect of the propellant by the swirl-coaxial injector, a wide and short flame was produced. Thus, it may be appropriate to employ the swirl-coaxial injector in thrusters having a limited physical dimension.

A Study on Nano-emulsion for Enhanced Transdermal Delivery of Hippophae rhamnoides Leaf Extract (비타민나무 잎 추출물의 피부 흡수 증진을 위한 나노에멀젼 연구)

  • Chae, Kyo Young;Kwon, Soon Sik;Park, Soo Nam
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.260-265
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    • 2013
  • In this study, nano-emulsions containing 0.01, 0.03, 0.05, and 0.10% ethyl acetate fraction of Hippophae rhamnoides (H. rhamnoides) leaf extracts were prepared. The particle size, particle size distribution and skin permeability of the nano-emulsions were evaluated for five weeks. Nano-emulsion was prepared by the sequential use of homogenizer and microfluidizer. Nano-emulsion containing the ethyl acetate fraction exhibited a monodispersed form. Nano-emulsion containing 0.03% ethyl acetate fraction was the most stable for five weeks. The in vitro skin permeation study of nano-emulsion containing 0.03% ethyl acetate fraction was carried out using Franz diffusion cell. The nano-emulsion showed a better skin permeability than that of O/W emulsion. These results indicate that the nano-emulsion containing the ethyl acetate fraction of H. rhamnoides leaf extract showed a remarkable stability and skin permeability than that of O/W emulsion.

Investigation of Antimicrobial Activity of Brown Algae Extracts and the Thermal and pH Effects on Their Activity

  • Lee, So-Young;Kim, Jin-Hee;Song, Eu-Jin;Kim, Koth-Bong-Woo-Ri;Hong, Yong-Ki;Lim, Sung-Mee;Ahn, Dong-Hyun
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.506-512
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    • 2009
  • The antimicrobial activity of water and ethanol extracts from 30 species of algae was measured using the agar diffusion method and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) test. In agar diffusion method, the 95% ethanol extracts from 12 of the algae showed growth inhibition against the tested microorganisms. In particular, Ishige okamurai, Ecklonia stolonifera, Sargassum siliquastrum, Sargassum thunbergii, Colpomenia bullosa, and Ecklonia cava had strong antibacterial activities against Gram-positive bacteria at 4 mg/mL. In the results of the MIC test, S. siliquastrum showed the most antimicrobial activity, where its MIC values ranged from 0.005 to 0.0075% against Listeria monocytogenes, Clostridium perfringens, and Basillus subtilis. In the thermal stability test, for the ethanol extracts of I. okamurai, E. cava, S. siliquastrum, S. thunbergii, and C. bullosa, the extracts proved to maintain high antimicrobial activities when they were treated at $121^{\circ}C$ for 15 min. In the pH stability test, the antimicrobial activity of the S. siliquastrum ethanol extract was stable from pH 2 to 10, whereas the activity of the other species ethanol extracts were weakened under pH 10 against several microbes.

Numerical Model of One-Dimensional Advection-Diffusion Equation Applying Split-Operator Method (연산자 분리기법에 의한 1차원 이송-확산방정식의 수치모형)

  • Lee, Jeong-Gyu;Gang, Chang-Gu;Lee, Jong-In
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.143-154
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    • 1997
  • A numerical model for solving advection-diffusion equation is presented by splitoperator method combining the Holly-Preissmann scheme with a fifth-degree interpolating polynomial for advection operator and the explicit scheme porposed by Hobson et al. for diffusion operator. To examine the developed model, the obtained numerical solutions are compared with both the analytic solution and those from the existing models for the instantaneous source (Gaussian hill) and the continuous source (advanced front) at upstream boundary with constant velocity and diffusivity condition. For the various cases having different Courant and Peclet numbers, it is shown that the present study provides stable solutions even for Courant numbers exceeding one. The result obtained by the present study also agree well with existing analytical solutions for both cases. The proposed explicit scheme somewhat releases the conventional restriction of explicit schemes for determining the time step size and provides satisfactory results for relatively large time step size.

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Characteristics and Release Behaviors of Aromatic Poly(vinyl acetate) Nanoparticles Prepared by Emulsification-Diffusion Technique (유화-확산법에 의해 얻어진 폴리(비닐 아세테이트) 나노 방향 입자의 특성 및 방출 거동)

  • Sohn, Sung-Ok;Lee, So-Min;Kim, Yun-Mi;Ghim, Han-Do
    • Polymer(Korea)
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.177-183
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    • 2007
  • In this study, nano-sized poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc) particles containing lavender oil as a core material were prepared by using emulsification-diffusion method. Effects of experimental parameters on the characteristics and the release behavior were examined with a field emission- scanning electron microscope, an electrophoretic light scattering spectrophotometer, a visible spectrophotometer and a high performance liquid chromatography The resulting aromatic particles could be prepared in nano-sized globular shapes with the mean particle size of 224 nm by controlling the experimental conditions. From the evaluation of release properties of aromatic PVAc nanoparticles with or without PVA coating, it was found that the aromatic particles coated with PVA show more sustaining and stable release behaviors. Our research on aromatic PVAc nanoparticles could be applied for durable fragrant finishing for textiles, leather products and so on.

TCC behavior of a shell phase in core/shell structure formed in Y-doped BaTiO3: an individual observation (Yttrium이 첨가된 BaTiO3에서 형성된 core/shell 구조에서 shell의 TCC 거동: 독립적 관찰)

  • Jeon, Sang-Chae
    • Journal of the Korean Crystal Growth and Crystal Technology
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.110-116
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    • 2020
  • Grains in the BaTiO3, which is used for a dielectric layer in MLCC(Multi-Layer Ceramic Capacitor) are necessary to form core/shell structure for a stable TCC(Temperature Coefficient of Capacitance) behavior. The shell property has been deduced from the whole TCC behavior of core/shell structure due to its tiny size, ~ few ㎛. This study demonstrates the individual TCC behavior of the shell phase measured by micro-contact measurement in a temperature range between 35 and 135℃. Pt electrode pairs deposited on an enlarged core/shell structure in a diffusion couple sample made the measurement possible. As a result, the DPT (Diffusion Phase Transition) behavior of the shell phase was revealed as a different TCC behavior from that of the core: a broad peak with Tm at 65℃. This would be also useful experimental data for a modelling that depicts dielectric-temperature behavior of core/shell structure.

Flickering Frequency and Pollutants Formation in Microwave Induced Diffusion Flames (마이크로파가 인가된 화염에서의 주파수 특성과 오염물질 생성)

  • Jeon, Young Hoon;Lee, Eui Ju
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.22-27
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    • 2016
  • The use of electromagnetic wave has been interested in various energy industry because it enhances a flame stability and provides higher safety environments. However it might increase the pollutant emissions such as NOx and soot, and have harmful influence on human and environments. Therefore, it is very important to understand interaction mechanism between flame and electromagnetic wave from environmental point of view. In this study, an experiment was performed with jet diffusion flames induced by electromagnetic wave. Microwave was used as representative electromagnetic wave and a flickering flame was introduced to simulate the more similar combustion condition to industry. The results show that the induced microwave enhances the flame stability and blowout limit. The unstable lifted flickering flames under low fuel/oxidizer velocity is changed to stable attached flames or lift-off flames when microwave applied to the flames, which results from the abundance of radical pool. However, NOx emission was increased monotonically with increasing the microwave power as microwave power increased up to 1.0 kW. The effects might be attributed to the heating of combustion field and thermal NOx mechanism will be prevailed. Soot particle was examined at the post flame region by TEM grid. The morphology of soot particle sampled in the microwave induced flames was similar to the incipient soot that is not agglomerated and contain a lots of liquid phase hydrocarbon such as PAH, which soot particle formed near reaction zone is oxidized on the extended yellow flame region and hence only unburned young particles are emitted on the post flame region.

Experimental investigation of blocking mechanism for grouting in water-filled karst conduits

  • Zehua Bu;Zhenhao Xu;Dongdong Pan;Haiyan Li;Jie Liu;Zhaofeng Li
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • v.34 no.2
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    • pp.155-171
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    • 2023
  • Aiming at the grouting treatment of water inflow in karst conduits, a visualized experiment system for conduit-type grouting blocking was developed. Through the improved water supply system and grouting system, and the optimized multisource information monitoring system, the real-time observation of diffusion and deposition of slurry, and the data acquisition of pressure and velocity during the whole process of grouting were realized, which breaks through the problem that the monitoring element is easy to fail due to slurry adhesion in conventional test system. Based on the grouting experiments in static and flowing water, the diffusion and deposition behavior of the quick-setting slurry under different working conditions were analyzed. The temporal and spatial variation behavior of the pressure and velocity were studied, and the blocking mechanism of the grouting were further revealed. The results showed that: (1) Under the flowing water condition, the counter-flow diffusion distance of slurry was negatively correlated with the flow water velocity and the volume ratio of cement and sodium silicate (C-S ratio), and positively correlated with the grouting volume. The slurry deposition thickness was negatively correlated with the flowing water velocity, and positively correlated with the grouting volume and C-S ratio. (2) The pressure increased slowly before blocking of the flowing water and rapidly after blocking in karst conduits. (3) With the continuous progress of grouting, the flowing water velocity decreased slowly first, then significantly, and finally tended to be stable. According to the research results, some engineering recommendations were put forward for the grouting treatment of the conduit-type water inflow disaster, which has been successfully applied in the treatment project of the China Resources Cement (Pingnan) Limestone Mine. This study provided some guidance and reference for the parameter optimization of grouting for the treatment projects of water inflow in karst conduits.

Numerical Simulation of Buoyant flume Dispersion in a Stratified Atmosphere Using a Lagrangian Stochastic Model

  • Kim, Hyun-Goo;Noh, Yoo-Jeong;Lee, Choung-Mook;Park, Don-Bum
    • Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.440-448
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    • 2003
  • In the present paper, numerical simulations of buoyant plume dispersion in a neutral and stable atmospheric boundary layer have been carride out. A Lagrangian Stochastic Model (LSM) with a Non-Linear Eddy Viscosity Model (NLEVM) for turbulence is used to generate a Reynolds stress field as an input condition of dispersion simulation. A modified plume-rise equation is included in dispersion simulation in order to consider momentum effect in an initial stage of plume rise resulting in an improved prediction by comparing with the experimental data. The LSM is validated by comparing with the prediction of an Eulerian Dispersion Model (EDM) and by the measured results of vertical profiles of mean concentration in the downstream of an elevated source in an atmospheric boundary layer. The LSM predicts accurate results especially in the vicinity of the source where the EDM underestimates the peak concentration by 40% due to inherent limitations of gradient diffusion theory. As a verification study, the LSM simulation of buoyant plume dispersions under a neutral and stable atmospheric condition is compared with a wind-tunnel experiment, which shows good qualitative agreements.