• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.317-328
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• 2024

Adopting a rational engineering methodology for building structures on sandy-clay soil layers has become increasingly important since it is crucial when structures erected on them often face seismic and cyclic wave loads. Such loads can cause a reduction in the stiffness, strength, and stability of the structure, particularly under un-drained conditions. Hence, this study aims to investigate how the dynamic properties of sand-clay mixtures are affected by loading frequency and clay content. Cyclic triaxial tests were performed on a total of 36 samples, comprising pure sand with a relative density of 60% and sand with varying percentages of clay. The tests were conducted under confining pressures of 50 and 100 kPa, and the samples' dynamic behavior was analyzed at loading frequencies of 0.1, 1, and 4 Hz. The findings indicate that an increase in confining pressure leads to greater inter-particle interaction and a reduced void ratio, which results in an increase in the soil's shear modulus. An increase in the shear strength and confinement of the samples led to a decrease in energy dissipation and damping ratio. Changes in loading frequency showed that as the frequency increased, the damping ratio decreased, and the strength of the samples increased. Increasing the loading frequency not only reflects changes in frequency but also reduces the relative permeability and enhances the resistance of samples. An analysis of the dynamic properties of sand and sand-clay mixtures indicates that the introduction of clay to a sand sample reduces the shear modulus and permeability properties.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제29권8호
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• pp.1120-1128
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• 2016

The objective of this work was to evaluate the effects of supplementation with nitrogen and starch on the nutritional performance of grazing cattle during the rainy season. Five rumen cannulated Nellore steers, averaging 211 kg of body weight (BW), were used. Animals grazed on five signal grass paddocks. Five treatments were evaluated: control (forage only), ruminal supplementation with nitrogen at 1 g of crude protein (CP)/kg BW, ruminal supplementation with starch at 2.5 g/kg BW, supplementation with nitrogen (1 g CP/kg BW) and starch (2.5 g/kg BW), and supplementation with nitrogen (1 g CP/kg BW) and a mixture of corn starch and nitrogenous compounds (2.5 g/kg BW), thereby resulting in an energy part of the supplement with 150 g CP/kg of dry matter (DM). This last treatment was considered an additional treatment. The experiment was carried out according to a $5{\times}5$ Latin square design following a $2{\times}2+1$ factorial arrangement (with or without nitrogen, with or without starch, and the additional treatment). Nitrogen supplementation did not affect (p>0.10) forage intake. Starch supplementation increased (p<0.10) total intake but did not affect (p<0.10) forage intake. There was an interaction between nitrogen and starch (p<0.10) for organic matter digestibility. Organic matter digestibility was increased only by supplying starch and nitrogen together. Nitrogen balance (NB) was increased (p<0.10) by the nitrogen supplementation as well as by starch supplementation. Despite this, even though a significant interaction was not observed (p>0.10), NB obtained with nitrogen plus starch supplementation was greater than NB obtained with either nitrogen or starch exclusive supplementation. Supplementation with starch and nitrogen to beef cattle grazing during the rainy season can possibly improve digestion and nitrogen retention in the animal.

• Nutrition Research and Practice
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.115-124
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• 2016

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: This is the first study to identify common genetic factors associated with the basal metabolic rate (BMR) and body mass index (BMI) in obese Korean women including overweight. This will be a basic study for future research of obese gene-BMR interaction. SUBJECTS/METHODS: The experimental design was 2 by 2 with variables of BMR and BMI. A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was conducted in the overweight and obesity (BMI > $23kg/m^2$) compared to the normality, and in women with low BMR (< 1426.3 kcal/day) compared to high BMR. A total of 140 SNPs reached formal genome-wide statistical significance in this study (P < $1{\times}10^{-4}$). Surveys to estimate energy intake using 24-h recall method for three days and questionnaires for family history, a medical examination, and physical activities were conducted. RESULTS: We found that two NRG3 gene SNPs in the 10q23.1 chromosomal region were highly associated with BMR (rs10786764; $P=8.0{\times}10^{-7}$, rs1040675; $2.3{\times}10^{-6}$) and BMI (rs10786764; $P=2.5{\times}10^{-5}$, rs10786764; $6.57{\times}10^{-5}$). The other genes related to BMI (HSD52, TMA16, MARCH1, NRG1, NRXN3, and STK4) yielded P < $10{\times}10^{-4}$. Five new loci associated with BMR and BMI, including NRG3, OR8U8, BCL2L2-PABPN1, PABPN1, and SLC22A17 were identified in obese Korean women (P < $1{\times}10^{-4}$). In the questionnaire investigation, significant differences were found in the number of starvation periods per week, family history of stomach cancer, coffee intake, and trial of weight control in each group. CONCLUSION: We discovered several common BMR- and BMI-related genes using GWAS. Although most of these newly established loci were not previously associated with obesity, they may provide new insights into body weight regulation. Our findings of five common genes associated with BMR and BMI in Koreans will serve as a reference for replication and validation of future studies on the metabolic rate.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.506-525
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• 1992

Older people, because of the psychological and physiological changes related to the aging process are more vulnerable to experiencing powerlessness than any other age group. This self destructive cycle of depression in older people related to the experience of continued and long term powerlessness can lead even to death. The purpose of this study was to measure powerlessness and resources to increase power in older people, and to measure the effectiveness of a psychological rehabilitation program for reducing powerlessness. The research methodology used was a two step process. In the first step, a survey was done of perceived powerlessness and power resources comparing four groups of elderly people ; those living at home, those in hospital, those living in nursing homes and those attending educational programs for the elderly. The total sample size was 236. In the second step, a psychological rehabilitation program was carried out, pre and post measurements were taken related to this program. The sample consisted of 29 residents in a nursing home. The results of the study are as follows : 1. Powerlessness was classified as cognitive, emotional, activity and learning. The lowest score for powerlessness was in the area of activity, that is the people in the sample felt more power concerning their activities. The highest score was in the area of cognition where they felt they had less power. 2. When the different groups of elderly were compared, it was found that the residents of the nursing home had the highest score on perceived powerlessness and the group who were living at home had the lowest score. 3. Among the general characteristics, the factors influencing the powerlessness score were age, sex, level of education, financial resources and health status. In the interaction effects among these factors, it was found that level of education and health status were factors influencing perceived powerlessness. The elderly with lower education and poorer health status had the higher scores for perceived powerlessness. 4. The power resources could be classified into the following areas : physical strength, emotional strength, positive self-image, energy, knowledge, motivation and belief system. Belief system was given the highest score among the power resources and energy, knowledge and motivation were given low scores. 5. The group participating in an educational program for the elderly had the highest score for power resources while the group made up of residents of a nursing home had the lowest score as well as the highest score for perceived powerlessness. 6. The factors influencing the power resource scores were sex, level of education, financial resources and health status. In the analysis of the interaction effect among the factors, it was found that sex, level of education and financial resources were the factors that influenced the power resource score, that is, women, those with a low level of education and those with poor financial resources reported a lower level of power resources. 7. There was a negative correlation between perceived powerlessness and power resources in the elderly in this study. Since power resources explainded 49% of the variance for powerlessness, it can be concluded that the power resources can be used to reduce powerlessness. 8. The psychological rehabilitation program was carried out with the nursing home residents over a period of five weeks. No statistically significant difference was found in the scores on powerlessness between the pre and post tests, but there was a slight decrease in the raw scores on the post test for emotional, activity and learning powerlessness. There was a statistically significant increase in the power resource scores for emotional strength, positive self-image, energy, knowledge and motivation in the post test as compared to the pre test. In conclusion, the study indicates that a psychological rehabilitation program for the elderly could be effective in increasing power resources and this in turn could lead to a decrease in perceived powerlessness.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제23권11호
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• pp.1510-1518
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• 2010

The study was conducted to evaluate the effect of lighting schedule and nutrient density on growth performance, carcass traits and meat quality of broiler chickens. A total of 576 day old Arbor Acre male chickens was used with a $4{\times}2$ factorial arrangement. The four lighting schedules were continuous (23 L:1 D, CL), 20 L:4 D (12 L:2 D:8 L:2 D), 16 L:8 D (12 L:3 D:2 L:3 D: 2 L:2 D) and 12 L:12 D (9 L:3 D:1 L:3 D:1 L:3 D:1 L:3 D) and provided by incandescent bulbs. The two nutrient densities were high (H, starter diet: 13.39 MJ/kg apparent metabolisable energy (AME), 23.00% crude protein (CP); finisher diet: 13.39 MJ AME/kg, 19.70% CP) and low energy and protein level (L, starter diet: 12.03 MJ AME/kg, 20.80% CP; finisher diet: 12.14 MJ AME/kg, 18.30% CP). Houses with dark curtains and solid sidewalls were used. Chickens were randomly allocated to the 8 treatments with each treatment comprising 6 replicates of 12 chickens. Feed and water were available ad libitum. Lighting schedules showed no difference (p>0.05) in growth performance at the end of the experiment. 12 L:12 D significantly reduced (p<0.05) the concentration of malondialdehyde (MDA) compared to 23 L:1 D treatment. Intermittent lighting (IL) schedules produced higher protein content (p<0.001) in breast meat. Birds on high density diets had higher body weight (BW), feed intake (FI) (p<0.001), and feed conversion ratio (FCR) (p<0.001) throughout the experiment with the exception of 36 to 42 d. High nutrient density increased (p<0.05) abdominal fat, decreased (p<0.05) the moisture loss of meat, and reduced percentage of wings and legs. There was a significant lighting schedule${\times}$diet interaction (p<0.001) on FCR for days 8 to 14 and 15 to 21. Results indicated that IL can give similar growth performance in comparison with CL, meanwhile with positive effects on meat quality by increasing protein content and decreasing the concentration of MDA. High nutrient density resulted in greater growth performance.

• 에너지공학
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.146-156
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• 1998

석탄을 연소한 후 형성되는 석탄회는 미세한 분말상태로 입자의 형상은 다공성이며 단단한 구형입자로 이루어져 있다. 본 연구에서는 국내 발전소에서 생성된 9종의 석탄회의 물리적, 형태적 및 화학적 조성 분석을 통해 국내 석탄회 데이터 베이스화, 연소효율 개선, 석탄회 집진설비인 전기집진기의 성능향상과 석탄회의 재활용에 기여하고자 한다. 석탄회의 물리적 특성은 입도분포와 비중을 입자카운터와 한국공업규격(KS L-5110)에 따른 비중 측정계를 이용하였으며, 형태적 특성은 입자의 구형성 정도, 표면특성 그리고 색상변화 등을 전자현미경(SEM)과 광학현미경을 이용하였다. 그리고 화학적 특성을 파악하기 위해 유도결합 플라즈마방출 분광기(ICP)와 에너지스펙트럼 분석기(EDXA)를 이용하여 석탄회의 구성성분을 분석하였고 한국공업규격 KS L-5405에 따른 석탄회에 함유된 미연탄소분을 측정하였다. 삼천포 화력발전소 전기집진기에서 포집한 석탄회에 대한 질량평균입경은 각각 15~25 $\mu\textrm{m}$로 나타났다. 석탄회 입자의 형상은 석탄 입자가 보일러의 연소 영역에 노출되는 정도에 따라 구형성, 투명성 및 색변화가 다양하게 나타나는데 완전 연소에 가까울수록 무색의 구형입자가 형성되었다. 석탄회는 보일러 내의 연소 조건과 원탄의 성분에 따라 구형, 무정형, Cenosphere 그리고 Plerosphere와 같은 유형의 입자를 형성하며 입자간의 상호 작용에 의해 집괴, 응집 그리고 결정형의 입자군들을 형성한다. 석탄회는 산회광물질로 이루어져 있으며 주성분 SiO2, Fe2O3, Al2O3로 약 85% 이상을 차지하였으며 10% 정도는 미연탄소분으로 이루어져 있었다.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.58-63
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• 2011

Recently, superconductor flywheel energy storage systems (SFESs) have been developed for application to a regenerative power of train, a power quality improvement, the storage of distributed power sources such as solar and wind power, and a load leveling. As the high temperature superconductor (HTS) bearings offer dynamic stability without the use of active control, accurate analysis of the HTS bearing is very important for application to SFESs. Mechanical property of a HTS bearing is the main index for evaluating the capacity of an HTS bearing and is determined by the interaction between the HTS bulks and the permanent magnet (PM) rotor. HTS bearing rotor consists of PM and iron collector and the proper dimension design of them is very important to determine a supporting characteristics. In this study, we have optimized a rotor magnet array, which depends on the limited bulk size and performed various dimension layouts for thickness of the pole pitch and iron collector. HTS bearing rotor was installed into a single axis universal test machine for a stiffness test. A hydraulic pump was used to control the amplitude and frequency of the rotor vibration. As a result, the stiffness result showed a large difference more than 30 % according to the thickness of permanent magnet and iron collector. This is closely related to the bulk stiffness controlled by flux pining area, which is limited by the total bulk dimension. Finally, the optimized HTS bearing rotor was installed into a flywheel system for a dynamic stability test. We discussed the dynamic properties of the superconductor bearing rotor and these results can be used for the optimal design of HTS bearings of the 10kWh SFESs.

• 한국자기학회지
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2016

Pd은 단일 원소 금속 중에서 자기 감수율이 가장 크고 외부 환경에 따라 강자성 특성을 보이기도 한다. 본 논문은 자성 연구에 가장 적합한 FLAPW 방법을 사용하여 5-ML과 9-ML Pd(111) 박막의 자성을 계산하였다. 전자간 교환-상관 상호작용을 고려하기 위해 LDA와 GGA를 도입하여 두 계산 결과를 비교하였다. LDA 계산은 덩치 Pd이 상자성 상태가 바닥 상태임을 예측하여 실험과 일치하는 반면, GGA 계산은 덩치 Pd이 강자성을 갖는 것으로 잘못 예측하여 Pd 자성에 대해서는 LDA 계산이 더 신뢰할 수 있음을 알았다. 5-ML Pd(111) 박막에 대한 LDA 계산 결과에 의하면 상자성 상태가 바닥인 덩치 Pd과는 다르게 강자성 상태가 더 안정적이었다. 박막의 중앙에 위치한 Pd이 가장 큰 자기모멘트($0.273{\mu}_B$)를 가지며 중앙 Pd 층의 |m| = 1 상태가 덩치의 그것과 큰 차이가 있어 5-ML Pd(111) 박막의 강자성을 유발하는 데 주요 역할을 함을 알 수 있었다. 9-ML Pd(111) 박막은 상자성 상태가 강자성 상태에 비해 안정하였으나 두 상태 사이의 총에너지 차이가 거의 없고 유한한 자기모멘트를 안정적으로 가지는 것으로 계산되어 강자성 상태가 준 안정적임을 보였다.

• Animal Bioscience
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• 제35권10호
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• pp.1545-1555
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• 2022

Objective: Our study aimed to investigate the effects of a 2% increase in dietary total digestible nutrients (TDN) value during the growing (7 to 12 mo of age) and fattening (13 to 30 mo of age) period of Hanwoo steers. Methods: Two hundred and twenty Hanwoo steers were assigned to one of two treatments: i) a control group (basal TDN, BTDN, n = 111 steers, growing = 70.5%, early fattening = 71.0%, late fattening = 74.0%) or high TDN (HTDN, n = 109 steers, growing = 72.6%, early = 73.1%, late = 76.2%). Growth performance, carcass traits, blood parameters, and gene expression of longissimus dorsi (LD) (7, 18, and 30 mo) were quantified. Results: Steers on the BTDN diets had increased (p≤0.02) DMI throughout the feeding trial compared to HTDN, but gain did not differ appreciably. A greater proportion of cattle in HTDN received Korean quality grade 1 (82%) or greater compared to BTDN (77%), while HTDN had a greater yield grade (29%) than BTDN (20%). Redness (a^*) of LD muscle was improved (p = 0.021) in steers fed HTDN. Feeding the HTDN diet did not alter blood parameters. Steers fed HTDN diet increased (p = 0.015) the proportion of stearic acid and tended to alter linoleic acid. Overall, saturated, unsaturated, monounsaturated, and polyunsaturated fatty acids of LD muscle were not impacted by the HTDN treatment. A treatment by age interaction was noted for mRNA expression of myosin heavy chain (MHC) IIA, IIX, and stearoyl CoA desaturase (SCD) (p≤0.026). No treatment effect was detected on gene expression from LD muscle biopsies at 7, 18, and 30 mo of age; however, an age effect was detected for all variables measured (p≤0.001). Conclusion: Our results indicated that feeding HTDN diet could improve overall quality grade while minimum effects were noted in gene expression, blood parameters, and growing performance. Cattle performance prediction in the feedlot is a critical decision-making tool for optimal planning of cattle fattening and these data provide both benchmark physiological parameters and growth performance measures for Hanwoo cattle feeding enterprises.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.81-86
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• 2019

X-선 영상에서 필터를 통한 여과의 역할은 영상 형성에 유용한 광자를 이용해 환자의 피폭량을 낮춤과 동시에 영상의 대조도를 높이는 것이다. 영상을 형성하는 데 있어서 저에너지 X-선은 환자 조직의 최초 몇 cm 부위에서 흡수되고 고에너지 부분만을 통과하여 형성되므로, 방사선 여과는 여과물질을 삽입하여 저에너지 X-선을 여과물질로 하여금 흡수시켜 환자의 피폭량을 낮추고 영상의 질을 높인다. 본 연구의 목적은 시뮬레이션을 통해 이상적인 환경에서 부가 필터가 방사선 영상 촬영 시 영상의 화질에 미치는 영향을 확인하고, 실제 방사선 영상을 촬영할 경우와 비교하는 것이다. 이를 위해 시뮬레이션 프로그램인 Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE)를 이용해 Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) Phantom의 실제 크기, 모양과 재질을 모사하고 부가 필터의 사용유무 및 필터의 두께에 따른 촬영 조건을 설정하여 시뮬레이션 결과 영상을 얻어냈다. 또한, Digital Radiography (DR)장비로 실제 PMMA Phantom을 필터가 없는 경우와 필터가 있을 때 그 두께를 변화시키며 촬영했다. 시뮬레이션의 결과 영상과 실제 실험을 통해 얻은 영상을 각각 Image J 프로그램을 이용해 Contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) 평가를 실행한 뒤, 시뮬레이션 결과 영상과 최종적으로 도출된 두 영상의 변화 추이를 비교 측정했다. 실험 결과 DR장비와 시뮬레이션 영상 모두 CNR이 감소하는 추세를 보였으며, 이는 결국 영상에서의 대조도 감소로 인해 나타난 결과였다. 이론적으로 관전압 (kVp)이 증가하면 대조도가 감소하고, 이를 통해보았을 때 필터는 저에너지부의 X-선을 흡수하면서 전체적인 선량을 감소시키지만, X-선의 평균에너지를 증가시키는 역할을 한다는 것을 알아볼 수 있었다.