• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.159-164
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• 2008

Two kinds of CNT/TiO2 composite photocatalysts were synthesized with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and titanium(IV) n-butoxide (TNB) by a MCPBA oxidation method. Since MWCNTs had charge transfer and semiconducting, the CNT/TiO2 composite shows a good photo-degradation activity. The XRD patterns reveal that only anatase phase can be identified for MCT composite, but the HMCT composite synthesized with HCl treatment was observed the mixed phase of anatase and rutile. The EDX spectra were shown the presence as major elements of Ti with strong peaks. From the SEM results, the sample MCT and HMCT synthesized by the thermal decomposition with TNB show a homogenous sample with only individual MWCNTs covered with TiO2 without any jam-like aggregates between CNTs and TiO2. From the photocatalytic results, we could be suggested that the excellent activity of the CNT/TiO2 composites for organic dye and UV irradiation time could be attributed to combination effects between TiO2 and MWCNTs with plausible photodegradation mechanism.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.484-488
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• 2008

We investigated the effect of the prolactin receptor gene (PRLR) on total number of born (TNB), number of born alive (NBA) and number of weaned (NW) piglets in Large White (LW), White Meaty (WM) and Landrace (L) sows from six Slovak breeding farms. The frequency of A allele was 0.48, 0.49 and 0.47 in LW, WM and L, respectively. We found numerous highly significant effects of PRLR locus on TNB ($p{\leq}0.01$; $p{\leq}0.05$) in all tested breeds. The most marked difference of +$1.31{\pm}0.45pigs/L$ was found between AA and BB genotypes in WM. Within the other breeds the difference between the homozygous genotypes reached up to +$0.94{\pm}0.3$ and +$1.21{\pm}0.19$ pigs per litter in LW and L, respectively. We also identified significant differences between AA and AB genotypes related to TNB in L. Similarly NBA, as well as NW traits were significantly affected ($p{\leq}0.01$; $p{\leq}0.05$) by the genotype just in LW and L. The homozygous genotype AA was favourable in all breeds and traits. Our results showed the possibility of PRLR utilization in marker-assisted selection within breeding programs to increase reproductive traits of pigs in Slovakia.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제32권11호
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• pp.1657-1663
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• 2019

Objective: A genome-based best linear unbiased prediction (GBLUP) method was applied to evaluate accuracies of genomic estimated breeding value (GEBV) of carcass and reproductive traits in Berkshire, Duroc and Yorkshire populations in Korean swine breeding farms. Methods: The data comprised a total of 1,870, 696, and 1,723 genotyped pigs belonging to Berkshire, Duroc and Yorkshire breeds, respectively. Reference populations for carcass traits consisted of 888 Berkshire, 466 Duroc, and 1,208 Yorkshire pigs, and those for reproductive traits comprised 210, 154, and 890 dams for the respective breeds. The carcass traits analyzed were backfat thickness (BFT) and carcass weight (CWT), and the reproductive traits were total number born (TNB) and number born alive (NBA). For each trait, GEBV accuracies were evaluated with a GEBV BLUP model and realized GEBVs. Results: The accuracies under the GBLUP model for BFT and CWT ranged from 0.33-0.72 and 0.33-0.63, respectively. For NBA and TNB, the model accuracies ranged 0.32 to 0.54 and 0.39 to 0.56, respectively. The realized accuracy estimates for BFT and CWT ranged 0.30 to 0.46 and 0.09 to 0.27, respectively, and 0.50 to 0.70 and 0.70 to 0.87 for NBA and TNB, respectively. For the carcass traits, the GEBV accuracies under the GBLUP model were higher than the realized GEBV accuracies across the breed populations, while for reproductive traits the realized accuracies were higher than the model based GEBV accuracies. Conclusion: The genomic prediction accuracy increased with reference population size and heritability of the trait. The GEBV accuracies were also influenced by GEBV estimation method, such that careful selection of animals based on the estimated GEBVs is needed. GEBV accuracy will increase with a larger sized reference population, which would be more beneficial for traits with low heritability such as reproductive traits.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• 제61권2호
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• pp.278-286
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• 2023

The present work evaluated the production of biohydrogen under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions through dark fermentation of palm oil mill effluent (POME) in batch mode using the design of experiment methodology. Response surface methodology (RSM) was applied to investigate the influence of the two significant parameters, POME concentration as substrate (5, 12.5, and 20 g/l), and volumetric substrate to inoculum ratio (1:1, 1:1.5, and 1:2, v/v.%), with inoculum concentration of 14.3 g VSS/l. All the experiments were analyzed at 37 ℃ and 55 ℃ at an incubation time of 24 h. The highest chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal, hydrogen content (H₂%), and hydrogen yield (HY) at a substrate concentration of 12.5 g COD/l and S:I ratio of 1:1.5 in mesophilic and thermophilic conditions were obtained (27.3, 24.2%), (57.92, 66.24%), and (6.43, 12.27 ml H₂/g COD_rem), respectively. The results show that thermophilic temperature in terms of COD removal was more effective for higher COD concentrations than for lower concentrations. Optimum parameters projected by RSM with S:I ratio of 1:1.6 and POME concentration of 14.3 g COD/l showed higher results in both temperatures. It is recognized how RSM and optimization processes can predict and affect the process performance under different operational conditions.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.389-398
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• 2013

본 연구는 폐쇄종돈군을 유지하면서 장기간 선발육종을 실시한 Landrace 및 Yorkshire 모계 종돈집단에서 임신기간, 총산자수, 이유후초종부일 및 사산두수에 대한 유전적 변이성을 제시함으로써 이들 형질들에 대한 선발지표에 참고자료를 제시하고자 실시하였다. 분석에 이용된 자료는 상기의 형질들에 대하여 사전 이상치를 제외한 후, Landrace 품종에서 1,910두의 모돈으로부터 수집된 7,616복의 기록 및 Yorkshire 품종 2283두의 모돈으로부터 수집된 총 10,454복의 기록을 이용하였다. 분석형질들에 대한 유전변이를 추정하기 위하여 상기의 4개 형질을 동시에 고려한 혼합모형을 설정하였으며, 특히 사산두수에 대하여는 정규성에 크게 위배되기 때문에 범주형 자료로 가정하여 다형질 선형-임계형 반복동물개체모형을 설정하여 분석하였다. 분석방법으로서는 Bayesian 추론의 일종인 Gibbs Sampling (GS) 방법에 의하여 모수의 사후분포 함수로부터 모수에 대한 GS을 50,000회 실시하고 burn-in을 제외한 후 모수의 사후분포에 대한 통계량을 제시하였다. 유전변이를 추정한 결과, 임신기간에 대한 유전력은 0.21~0.35로 추정되었고, 이유후초종부일에서는 0.16~0.23, 총산자수는 0.14~0.16 및 사산두수에 있어서는 0.09~0.10으로 추정되었다. 임신기간에 대한 유전상관 추정치는 총산자수 및 사산두수에서 부의 상관을 갖는 것으로 추정되었고 총산자수와 사산두수와는 정의 상관을 갖는 것으로 추정되었다. 총산자수와 이유후초발정일 간의 유전상관은 낮은 부의 상관을 갖는 것으로 추정되었으며 임신기간과 이유후 초종부일 간에는 유전적 상관관계가 매우 미약한 것으로 분석되었다. 따라서 총산자수를 개량하고자 할 때, 사산두수를 고려하여 선발지표를 설정함이 타당할 것으로 판단되었다.

• 미생물학회지
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.341-345
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• 2007

식용 및 약용으로 광범위하게 이용되고 있는 갈근 내부조직으로부터 강한 점액성 물질을 생산하는 50개의 내생 균주를 분리하였다. 다당류의 수율이 높은 내생균주 HDN-14, TDG-3및 TNB-3 균주를 선발하여 이들이 생산하는 다당류의 구성당 조성을 분석한 결과 glucose ($45.6{\sim}63.1%$), maltose ($14.6{\sim}23.7%$) 및 fructose ($17.4{\sim}23.7%$)가 검출되었다. 이들 분리균주의 16S rDNA 염기서열(약 1,300bp)을 결정하여 계통학적 위치를 검토한 결좌, ${\grmma}$-Proteobacteria 그룹의 Pseudomonas 속에 속하는 균주임이 확인되었으며, HDN-14과 TNB-3 균주는 Pseudomonas $koreensis^T$, Pseudomonas $jessenii^T$와 $99.06{\sim}99.32%$의 상동성을 나타내었으며 TDG-3 균주는 Pseudomonas $plecoglossicida^T$, Pseudomonas $mosselii^T$, Pseudomonas $monteilii^T$와 $99.48{\sim}99.74%$ 상동성을 나타내었다. 이들 분리균주는 주요 균체지방산으로 $3OH-C_{10:0}$, $2OH-C_{12:0}$, $3OH-C_{12:0}$, $3OH-C_{12:0}$ 및 $3OH-C_{12:1}$가 검출되었으며, TDG-3 균주의 경우, 3-OH $C_{13:0}$, 3-OH $C_{14:0}$, 3-OH $C_{15:0}$ 및 3-OH $C_{16:0}$등 다양한 종류의 3-OH 지방산이 검출되어 기존의 Pseudomonas 종과 비교하여 매우 특징적인 성질을 나타내었다.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2005년도 학술발표회(1)
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• pp.396-397
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• 2005

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권8호
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• pp.2820-2822
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• 2011

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.210-215
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• 2010

In this study, an expanded graphite-titanium oxide composite is developed from expanded graphite (EG) and titanium n-butoxide (TNB). EG is synthesized by chemical intercalation of natural graphite (NG) and rapid expansion at high temperature. TNB is used as the titanium source. The performances of the prepared EG-$TiO_2$ composite are characterized by BET surface area measurements, scan electron microscope (SEM), X-ray diffraction patterns (XRD) and energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDX). The catalytic activities of the EG-$TiO_2$ composite are investigated by analysis of the degradation of methylene blue (MB) in aqueous solution under irradiation of UV light. Compared with the pristine $TiO_2$ and activity carbon-$TiO_2$ (AC-$TiO_2$) composite, the EG-$TiO_2$ composite shows very high efficiency against MB solution, and the EG could improve the photocatalytic effect of $TiO_2$ in the MB degradation reaction under the irradiation of UV light.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.32-40
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• 2009

In this study, we have prepared three kinds of carbon nanometer tube $CNT/TiO_{2}$ electrodes through impregnation with different concentration titanium n-butoxide (TNB) solution. The prepared electrodes were characterized with surface properties, structural crystallinity, elemental identification and photoelectrocatalytic activity. The $N_2$ adsorption data showed that the composites had decreased surface area compared with the pristine CNT. This indicated the blocking of micropores on the surface of CNT, which was further supported by observation via SEM. XRD results showed patterns for the composites and a typical single and clear anatase crystal structure. The main elements such as C, O and Ti were existed for all samples from the EDX data. The catalytic efficiency of the developed electrode was evaluated by the photoelectrodegradation of methylene blue (MB). The positive potential applied in photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) oxidation was studied. It was found that photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) decomposition of MB solution could be attributed to combination effects between $TiO_2$ photocatalytic and CNT electro-assisted. Through the comparison between photocatalytic (PC) oxidation and photoelectrocatalytic (PEC) oxidation, it was found that the PEC oxidation efficiency for MB is higher than that of PC oxidation.